The Bandra Police on Thursday arrested a 23-year-old from Jodhpur in Rajasthan for allegedly hacking into dozens of Whatsapp and Facebook profiles. The arrested accused, Diptesh Salecha, had earlier been arrested by the Pune and Nashik police on similar charges. The accused has three such cases registered against him in Mumbai -- at the Bandra, Versova and Borivali police stations.

"He is a Std X dropout, but has excellent knowledge of information technology, which he uses to commit such cyber offences," said senior police inspector Girish Vishnu Anavkar of Bandra police station. The investigating officer who arrested Sulecha from Rajasthan, PSI Sachin Chaudhry, said, "It was very difficult to crack this case because we didn't have any IP address. We, therefore used his trick and chatted with him on Instagram to get the IP address."